Timbuktu unbound : Islamic texts, textual traditions and heritage in West Africa / Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, editor.
Engmann, Rachel Ama Asaa, editor.
2023
BP64.A38
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Title Timbuktu unbound : Islamic texts, textual traditions and heritage in West Africa / Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, editor.
ISBN 9783031348242 (electronic bk.)
3031348249 (electronic bk.)
9783031348235
3031348230
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34824-2
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 161 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-34824-2 doi
Call Number BP64.A38
Dewey Decimal Classification 297.0966
Summary Timbuktu Unbound: Islamic Texts, Textual Traditions and Heritage in West Africa is a cutting edge collection offering a reconsideration of manuscripts in Muslim West Africa. The contributors give voice to the dynamic ways in which textuality operates through technological innovations, ongoing habituated practices, and how the workings of power and authority within these communities inform these texts and their roles. To that end this book explores a number of interrelated themes: the social value of texts as objects; personal libraries as forms of investment/legacy; social practices involved in the exchange, movement and gifting of certain kinds of manuscripts; hierarchies and evaluative treatments of manuscripts, and quasi-market forces. The recent destruction and subsequent salvage operations to protect the Timbuktu manuscript libraries has highlighted their role as the quintessential exemplar of manuscript heritage in newly historicized Africa. Yet these events also underscore the prevalent narrative about Muslim West African cultural heritage - embodied in the form of manuscripts, archives and documents - as under dramatic and existential threat. This volume seeks to diverge from this dominant salvific starting point of heritage discourse - namely, that such objects are things of intrinsic value to be saved - in order to examine the more nuanced activities of diverse actors engaged in the study, preservation, acquisition, movement and, in some cases, destruction and disposal of the wide range of materials that constitutes the textual heritage of these societies. Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann is an Associate Professor at the Africa Institute, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 13, 2023).
Added Author Engmann, Rachel Ama Asaa, editor.
Series Palgrave pivot.
Heritage studies in the Muslim world.
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Timbuktu Unbound: Islamic Texts, Textual Traditions and Heritage in West Africa
Tombouctou Sans Reliures: Textes Islamiques, Traditions Textuelles et Patrimoine en Afrique de l'Ouest
West African Manuscript Heritage
Texts, Textual Traditions and Textualities
References
Colonialism and Book Culture: The Resistance of the Muslim Scholarly Communities in Northern Nigeria
Colonialisme et Culture du Livre: la Résistance des Communautés Savantes Musulmanes au Nord du Nigéria
Introduction

Pre-Colonial Scholarly Communities in Hausaland
Scholarly Communities and Colonial Surveillance
Scholarly Resistance
Conclusion
References
A Treasure in Disarray: Reflections on the Institute of African Studies Arabic Manuscripts Collections
Un Trésor en Désordre: Réflexions sur les collections de manuscrits arabes de. l'Institut des Études Africaines
Introduction
The Scaholars behind the Scripts: The Dyulas and Hausas
Decolonizing Ghanaian History: Arabic Manuscripts as Indigenous Sources
Managing the Collection: Prioritization Superimposed over Standard Practices

Engaging the Manuscripts: Research, Translation and Publications
Conservation and Preservation
The Dawn of New Era: Revival of the IAS Arabic Project
Final Thoughts: The Way Forward
References
Efficacious Texts: Unraveling Nineteenth-Century Islamic Talismans in Asante (Ghana)
Textes Efficaces: Démêler les Talismans Islamiques du XIXe siècle à Asante (Ghana)
Introduction
Objects, Texts, Praxis and Controversies
Beginnings
Following the Trail...
Textual Things
Present Pasts
Conclusion
References
Building Family and Community Ties Through Manuscripts

Introduction
Writing and Transmission
West Africa as a Center of Manuscript Production
Manuscripts Unbound
Collective Reading and the Creation of Family Ties
References
Flecks of Timbuktu on the Skin: Excavating the Unbound Aspects of a Manuscript Collection
Taches de Tombouctou sur la Peau: Fouillant les aspects non liés d'une collection de manuscrits
Preparations
A Recounting
A Taphonomic Accounting
A Ball-Point.

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